PC randomly freezes and shows dark blue screen with vertical lines

[MintyTwister]

I don't know much to say about this, my PC will just randomly crash, mainly when it's idle, when I'm playing games like really intense games, the PC is fine, but as soon as it's idle and doesn't do much for a bit it'll freeze up and show a dark blue screen with slightly darker blue vertical lines.

 

Idle CPU, i7 4770k is 34-40C

MSI 797 GAMING 7 mobo is 32C, pretty much always sitting there

GPU is 270x sitting around 30C

8 Gigs RAM

PSU is 1000 Watt Corsair (Had awesome deal, it's also very power efficient, don't worry)

 

I'm unsure what the issue could be, it seems like when I'm not playing games my PC has a fit.

[Altecice]

whats graphics driver are you running? if its 14.9 roll back to 14.7.

[TheKDub]

Try upgrading/downgrading your video drivers.

[Sklo]

Try upgrading/downgrading your video drivers.

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[MintyTwister]

Well I feel silly, just found out my Corsair Link has stopped running on Windows startup, so for the past week my liquid cooling hasn't been at max efficiency, so maybe the CPU wasn't cooling down after a game well..

 

Should I just see how it goes for a few days or go ahead and rollback?

[kreft010]

Shouldn't the pc shut down entirely if it's overheated? But your guess sounds plausible.

[MintyTwister]

Yeah it didn't fix it, this time it was a red screen though. I've looked on AMD's site and can't find 14.7 anywhere at all, it's like the only version that seems none existent, I find 14.4 and anything after is 14.9, should I go with that?

[NeatSquidYT]

Yeah it didn't fix it, this time it was a red screen though. I've looked on AMD's site and can't find 14.7 anywhere at all, it's like the only version that seems none existent, I find 14.4 and anything after is 14.9, should I go with that?

Just try it, what's the worst that can happen?

[MintyTwister]

Just try it, what's the worst that can happen?

 

whats graphics driver are you running? if its 14.9 roll back to 14.7.

 

I've rolled back the drivers, didn't seem to help. This time when my PC froze it showed a completely solid orange screen. All the other times were dark blue with lines and dark red with lines, with the audio /sometimes/ stuttering in the background.

 

This time though it didn't freeze the audio.

[MintyTwister]

Anyone? It's still happening, this time the screen was red.

[johncarlosbe]

it could be you gpu, is there any way you could try it any other computer to see if it does the same thing.

[lopj245]

Check your ram, I've seen this happen because of faulty ram before. 

[nohuevos]

use the hdmi on your motherboard and see if it still happens 

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

This has happened with my NVidia GPU, and it turned out to be a bad driver. I recommend-

1. Try rolling back to an even further back driver (try at least 1 more in addition to your last rollback)
2. You mentioned that your liquid cooling loop wasn't working effiently- try monitoring your temps using MSI Afterburner for the GPU and RealTemp for the CPU
3. Try checking your RAM using Memtest 86+. Run this for 24 hours and see if your memory is bad.

Kindly update us with the results. I hope this helps!

[Guest]

It could be a virus, try scanning it with Malwarebytes.

[MintyTwister]

use the hdmi on your motherboard and see if it still happens 

Actually, there's one thing I forgot, when this happened at some point I put the 2nd screen on with HDMI (mobo) and there was nothing wrong with it.

 

I guess it really IS the GPU, am I really that unlucky that this is the 5th faulty GPU I've had? Atleast it's just the GPU and nothing else. I'm gonna wait till it crashes one more time and hook it up with the HDMI cable to be 100% sure.